Hey guys so I’m gonna be going to Canada Cup next month and I wanna know what you guys think I should do to level up my game in a month? I really wanna do well, there’s gonna be people like Mago, Tokido, Poongko, Infiltration, Justin Wong, Mike Ross and some people from England. What do you guys think I can do? I really wanna level up as much as possible
go and have fun, these guys are too good for any of us here, lol. Take some pictures and record your matches
A month is too short to prepare for a massive tourney.
The people you mentioned dedicated years of playing and practicing before attaining their respective skill level.
I’d agree with Monsterer. Have fun and learn from the experience. Use the month you have left to play as much as you can.
Good luck with the tournament.
Im not sure how good you are, but your best bet is to focus on your greatest weaknesses, whether it be wakeup defense, or even certain matchups. You should also solidify your strengths and go into the training room and work on links if you need to.
Most importantly, I’d go to the Yogaflame24 and shinakuma sites… any japanese ranked matches with the likes of gameoutttt and ACE E I RI N matches and try to emulate what they do. These guys play nonstop hours till their finger bleed, and share knowledge with guys that know more than any of us. Study those matches religiously, but more importantly study why and why they don’t do certain things that you would (distancing, counters, etc.). If brackets are up, then you can study whomever’s matches and learn their gimmicks. I studied a couple of killers when i went to EVO (cammy, balrog) and ended up getting lit up by ROM and some Yang gimmicks I had never seen before.
Keep in mind that there’s only so much you can do in a month. Don’t get too wound up and listen to what the other guys are saying. Play your best and try to have fun. If you’re anything like me, you will still want to work your hardest, which is why I went into detail above.
Both of you have very good guile’s. I’ve played both of you recently and there is not much difference among your styles. Both of you are pretty safe and ordinary, well that is guile, if you want to win you got to keep it basic. Onlinegarbage has better use of antiairs and can start a little offense. Skaterz is more into the turtle mode. But what I see is, when I play against Guiles, I am the one chasing most of them. There are very few guiles on PSN that can put an offense, the only one I know is nuckledudu and a couple from here not mentioning the top players like Fuson or warahk. My advice is, Turtling will only get you so far, once you reached the limit where being a turtle aint enough, you will have to step up your guile game and be a walking forward wall, insead of a walking backwards wall. Besides, being able to land combos that are hard to do in a match like those risky 1 frames that end in FK are priceless.
My advice stays the same, go meet the people, take pictures, record matches. see if you can win a round or two.
Rexell
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Many top players love to OS backdash or FK with their superior hitbox reversal moves. One way to beat OS(character dependent), is to FA backdash their jump-ins. I said character dependent cos some characters can punish this easily with their fast normals on reaction. E.g Akuma’s f.hk and Ryu’s sweep.
I think my advice would be to learn to adapt faster than you are adapting now and don’t crouch tech as much as you normally do. And also try to move around more in matches rather than playing the traditional Guile. You can’t play Guile and hope to do very well in AE if you play him like he’s meant to be played unless you are capable of not even making a single mistake during the entire round.
Backdashing in the middle of blockstrings work much better than backdashing on wakeup against them too.
I have the feeling, my problem is being not capable to play Guile he is meant to be played, and thats reason why I am having such a hard time in the game.
I just always played Guile very differently in SF2Turbo from what’s “the norm”, it seems. Back in the early nineties I didn’t have much input from other players.
I am always too much rushdown, and not lame/turtle enough (or not at all)…
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Wikum
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i’ve been trying this recently and been getting mixed results. funnily enough, i’ve found that one of the worst characters to do this against is another guile, as guile’s cr.mp will just about catch the back dash, allowing him to do j.hk, j.mp, flash kick…and get all that grey damage on top too. i have seen this whiff in certain situations too. weird stuff.
Rexell
10
Focus backdashing OSs doesn’t always work. Depends on quite a few factors like which normal attack, timing of the normal and your FA backdash timing and also the opponent’s reaction. If he’s looking out for backdash/reversal on his OS and doesn’t have good reactions, you’ll most likely get away with it cos most of the time they’ll delay a little before pressing c.lk which whiffs on backdash. If they are fast, they can sweep/some normals that can hit, or just walk forward a bit and hit you when you recover. I think the main thing here is that no one should do it all the time against safejumps.
Haha…
But on the other side that means, there are a lot of people like me, who play Guile the wrong way because of SF2 and the lack of internet back in the day.
